Aircraft trajectory optimization and contrails avoidance in the presence of winds

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1577-1583

  Sridhar, Banavar ^a   Ng, Hok K ^b   Chen, Neil Y ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; FUELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORIES;

AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; NONLINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; PATH CONSTRAINT;

TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 80052673632     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.53378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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